Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

1. The Myth of the Artist Genius
Despite the myth of the individual creative genius propagated by Ruskin and others, creative invention (in any field) is largely a process of adaptation and adoption -tempered by the wisdom and folly of the “zeitgeist” (the spirit of the times).
Vincent van Gogh, is now the hero of the many […]

Been writing in my aches and pains diary, actually a planner-calendar, which I keep so as to figure out what’s causing the pains.
For several days now I have been in physical pain - starting with chest pains that I associated a few years ago, perhaps 2002, with heartburn caused by an allergy to multi-vitamin tablets […]

Had lunch today with family and relatives, c/o Auntie Pin who treated everyone at Max’s at Quezon Memorial Circle, QMC Park. I’ve been to the QMC park a few times earlier, and it’s a pretty good park, a project of former Quezon City vice-mayor Charito Planas. The QMC park boasts of being “self-reliant”, that is, […]

Woke up early today, looked out the window and saw our apartment’s ocassional visiting mangy orange cat on the neighbor’s tin roof.

Well at least now I know that it’s male.
I remember when we first came in this apartment a year ago seeing this orange cat on the same roof - it […]

To celebrate a month AFTER my partner’s birthday, we decided to go to the university and eat at our favorite Cititop/Khas Foodhaus, meet with a friend from the old BBS days (I haven’t seen her in probably 7 years!), check out the model houses constructed by the UP Building Research Service, and most importantly, see […]

According to data obtained by Inquirer.net from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, more Filipinos, especially women, have married foreigners in the last three years. (See news article)
Last year, 24,904 Filipinos married foreigners, up 18 percent from the previous year’s 21,100. The 2005 figure is an 11.4 percent increase from the 2004 figure of 18,933.
I suppose […]

Two Birthdays
What a wonderful birthday celebration my auntie had last Friday - her 75th birthday, and next year will be celebrating 50-year wedding anniversary. How blessed and fortunate they are, as one of her old school friends said, that they are still healthy and can enjoy life so much.
I thought about that - 50 long […]